Still Life” was the result of a problem of construction in pastel with three colors, the vase green, the small box red, with the white string.
In paintings of still life, and of mere architecture, ruins, interiors of churches, &c.
And thus in a way he lowered her to the level of a 'living lay figure,' which he stuck in front of him and copied as he might have copied a pitcher or a stew-pan for a bit of still life.
I'll bring you the lobster, you'll paint me a bit of still life from it, and keep it for your pains.
I therefore advise you to follow me quietly, and to give up such weapons as you may possess.
He gave me at once a soldier to serve me, and I had very quickly a bed, a table, and a few chairs.
I am ready to follow you, but first allow me to write four notes; I shall not be half an hour.
My mother rose at day break, opened one of the windows facing the bed, and the rays of the rising sun, falling on my eyes, caused me to open them.
VAN DE SANDE: "Study of Still Life: Roses in a Basket," 266.
No," said the painter of still life; "my sister's married and gone out to India.
Her name, Barton, and address had been given him by a painter of still life, called French.
And with these words he resumed the painting of still life which he had broken off to talk to Hilary.
He had always tried to keep out of his mind that which might have given him the key to her special feeling for himself--those words of the painter of still life: "She's got a story of some sort.
De Heem was one of the greatest painters of still life in Holland; no artist of his class combined form and color more successfully.
His small pictures of still life, principally representing pots and other kitchen stuff, are pearls of the first water; but they are somewhat rare.
His greatest tour de force is his poem, Still Life.
There are no hasty movements with him, no catastrophes nor complications; he has a preference for "still life" in the world of men, just as in nature.
Chardin lived in an old studio, high up near the roof, a quiet, dark room that was usually full of vegetables which he used for his "still life.
For practical study of composition, the most useful materials you can have are to be found in still life.
There is practically no problem possible to in-the-house light which may not be worked out by means of still life.
Chardin is well seen in this room in his laborious studies of still life, 89 and 90, L.
Artists and other people who draw and paint often speak of objects such as you have lately been studying as "still life.
Still life" means objects without life, like most of those studied in this chapter, although fruits and flowers are also frequently included.
Mounted birds and insects or other animal forms from which life has gone are also classed as still life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "still life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
